Reverend E.J. Peck and the Inuit East of Hudson Bay (1876-1919)
Bibliographie
- Auteurs : Peck Edmund James (1850-1924) ; Laugrand Frédéric (1967-) ; Oosten Jarich Gerlof (1945-....) ;
- ISBN : 978-2-92164-409-9
- Sujets : Missionnaires anglais -- Canada (Nord) 1870-1914, Inuits, Ethnologie, Moeurs et coutumes, Canada (Nord) -- Récits de voyages -- 1870-1914, Northern Canada, Récits de voyages anglais, Journaux intimes anglais, Peck, Edmund James, Peck, Anglican Church of Canada -- Missions Canada (Nord), Church missionary society, Anglican Church of Canada, Church Missionary Society
- Langue(s) : Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 volume (XXVIII-659 pages), : Illustrations (portraits, fac-similés), jaquette illustrée, 26 cm
- Pays de publication : Canada
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Résumé
Inuit have been living in the Hudson Bay and in a vast territory today called Nunavik for thousand of years. However, historical sources remain scarce and mostly origin from the various traders that operated in the region. In this book, Reverend E.J. Peck gives a vivd account of his experience as a missionary from the Church Missionary Society among the Inuit of Hudson's Bay. Known by the Inuit as Uqammaq, 'the one who speaks well', he spent many years trying to convert the Inuit and travelling with them in different areas. Peck arrived in 1876 and departed in 1892. He not only reflects on his own life as a missionary, but also described the Inuit, their daily life, their spiritual world and their conversion to Christianity. This book examines his unpublished autobiography, his notebooks and many Annual letters he sent to the Church Missionary Society in London. It precedes a second book devoted to Peck in Baffin Island (1894-1905), and edited by the same authors and François Trudel: 'Apostle to the Inuit: The Journals and Ethnographic Notes of E.J. Peck'... (UTP, 2006). The descriptions are rich and detailed, and at the same time of a fragmentary nature. Peck himself made a series of colour sketches that are included in this book. All these scenes depict Peck's perspectives as an Anglican missionary. They deal more particularly with the Inuit visiting the trading posts in Little Whale River, Fort George and to a lesser extent, Fort Chimo and the Hudson's strait. The book also presents some original drawings made by the Inuit in Blacklead Island, where Reverend Peck was sent just after his work in the Hudson Bay, in 1894.